Sentence examples for a shocking time for from inspiring English sources

Police commander Doug Fryer told a radio station it was a "shocking time for everybody".

"It's a shocking time for a lot of Indigenous families and friends, but the gathering was good".

"It's been a shocking time".

It's a shocking time, just wasn't good enough".

"They may do a shocking one-time, 50-basis-point cut," he said, using the term for hundredths of a percentage point.

"At the level of survival we are fast approaching, our attempts to distinguish ourselves by accidental and historical differences and theological subtleties--while ignoring the clear 'bottom line'--are becoming an almost blasphemous waste of time and a shocking disrespect for God's one, beautiful, and multitudinous life.

"Two or three phrases just stand out and they really are shocking: 'This is a tough time for him,' the president's words.

It is a shocking statistic for a mammal that has been here since the time of sabre-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths.

The PM said James Foley's killing was "deeply shocking" but warned it was "not a time for a knee-jerk reaction".

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned the killing as "deeply shocking" but said it was "not a time for a knee-jerk reaction".

"It set a shocking new standard for deceit at the time," Mr. Taubman observes, "and left many Americans wondering whether they could trust their leaders".